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Originally Posted by sts60
Whether Hoagland had an undergraduate astronomy degree or not, there's no need to deny he's reasonably intelligent, has spent considerable time on and done some work to popularize astronomy, and even had some participation in the Pioneer plaque.
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I kept a copy of the final issue of "Worlds of IF" before it merged with Galaxy back during my college days. It includes a very poetic piece, drifting between fiction and a fact essay, on the future of astronomy as it moves into space, from a spaceship captain retrieving film from an orbiting telescope (well, you can't predict everything!) to an astronomer figuratively turning on the lights as everyone leaves the old observatory for the last time. The author? None other than Richard Hoagland!